This is what I saw this afternoon while walkin our company to their car. It was after our five minute rain with way high winds.
My blooming rosemary
That is pretty cute Sybil, you Rosemary sure has big and pretty flowers LOL.
Thanks, Frostweed. I'm trying to send a pic of the hibiscus with those big, beautiful blooms on it, but it keeps capturing a pic of a squirrel on my bird feeder. I don't know what to do. I've redone it several times, but it won't let go of that squirrel pic.
LOL! My rosemary doen't have near as large of blooms!
What variety is that rosemary? It's so pretty!
I have no idea, Stephanie. It's just one I picked up at Max's. His prices are so reasonable, but a downside is that almost nothing is "tagged."
Wow! I was always trying to grow rosemary back in Boston but they always died in the winter, and never got that big or pretty. I finally learned that my husband HATES the taste and there's really no point, to me, if you can't cook with it. But yours is gorgeous.
Thanks Carrie. You probably tried too hard with the rosemary. I've found it and the other herbs just sort of like to be left alone. My hubby is not crazy about it either, but I didn't know it until I'd already planted it. How could anybody not like it???
I agree! ^_^ But rosemary is not hardy in z. 6....i was experimenting. Fail. I also made no allowance for freezing-thawing cycles of which we had TONS! I don't blame the poor things for dying (every winter)!
Hey, win a few, lose a few. I think we're always better for trying.
Absolutely.
For Texas Rosemary is no fail- but you don't have to eat them, they make gorgeous flower borders too! Xeriscaping plant. The DG files have one with those flowers-- Blue Spires-- I think, upright. I love them and Spicy Globe Basil for borders- the aromas are awesome.
I can smell it in my imagination--yummy, yummy. See, there you go with food again. Herbs go with food, for me. DH is not a gourmand. But you're right, they are also pretty, pretty.
Yup, a sneaky on DH- plant for flower garden and have fresh for meals he can't join you, chuckl, win win situation!
He's allergic to most of the food I like anyway, or thinks it's disgusting. I'll eat the rosemary and he can watch, like he does when I eat avocado, lamb, veal, salmon, lobster, shrimp, crayfish, catfish, mushrooms, squash (all types), sweet potatoes, pumpkin, cheese and dairy (that's not his fault), rosemary, tarragon, or mint. I'm positive there's a LOT more, I just can't think of it right now. Dill. Blue cheese. Lox. HUNGRY again. Cranberry sauce. This is too easy.
Well, I have a few of his allergies- seafood, dairy, cooked greens, (reduce fibre) but the rest is fair game!
Dairy is an allergy, but the rest he just doesn't like or won't try! I am sympathetic to sensitivities and intolerances, but he just doesn't like vegetables, cooked or raw. He only likes iceberg lettuce. Ah, I love him to death and until death, and he'll be home soon so I shouldn't be thinking wicked thoughts, but he likes a bland diet.
My daughter has celiac disease, my sister is ALLERGIC to nuts and raw fruits and vegetables, and my ex- has anaphylactic-type allergies to crustaceans, but this guy and I are madly in love and don't share the same taste in food, art or interior decorating. But it's all good, he's worth the rest of my life not eating tarragon for! I mean really, tarragon, or true love?
I was raised on a dairy- it is food to me- but abt the time I turned 32 it would fold me over double to the point I acquired 'left handed appendicitis' the gas it gives me causes the diverticulosis to flare into infections I gladly gave up all dairy for. Seafood is a diff allergy- involves my breathing, but I am not allergic to nuts- that's the diverticulosis diet- reduce fibre. Take care of him- sometimes as guys age their palates change, hehehe
I guess it's possible (she said doubtfully). I love to try new foods--I wish I had a tougher stomach (or maybe gut) myself. But I'm not allergic to anything, yay! I have to watch what I eat but it's because otherwise I would have pizza with olives for breakfast and coconut for lunch and hazlenut torte for supper = crazy indigestion. (He'd be laughing at me the whole time.) I remember my grandmother 30 years ago had a ridiculous dog who could only eat white rice and hamburger. Doesn't seem so ridiculous now....
WOW! I had one that got four feet tall and it never bloomed! :(
Sylvia, you'e not thinking those were actually the rosemary blooms were you? Noooo. The rosemary is right next to my huge hibiscus, and a hard, 10 minute wind blew the blooms off the hibiscus onto the rosemary. Looked pretty cool.
Yes I did! Thats what I get for not keeping up! LOL I only read the first three post and I looked at the picture again and got very sad. Still your Rosemary is awesome and has a very wide spread. I lost my tree when I moved here and put it in the ground. It should have stayed in the pot.
Thanks
I ~ LOVE ~ my rosemary -- Tuscan Blue -
The bees love any blue nectary flower, sssssssso thet love her, the
hunnibgbirds love her. She is planted next to the sidewalk entrance
to our home, so people brush up against her, and comment on the
luscious fragrance, even if they have no idea as to what it is.
It is very strong in cooking, so a ;itt;e hoes a really long way, so use sparinglt.
In like to pull a few woody sprigs in the BBQ fire-
it makes fragrant wonderful smoke !
Gather some and bring into the house for a natural
room feshener.
Mine srarted as a 2 inch piece 6 years
ago planted in a 3 inch little mound of
soil 6 years ago and is now 5 feet tall
and aboyt 6 feet in diameter.
Blooms mostly in cool/cold water.
We never water it, survives on rain
and very occasional snow
Anyone who wants me to root some
for you for next round up, LMK
Carrie, whar DOES your hubby ear, LOL ?
Mine is only slightly pickier than yours,
but has changed since he now has to
cook !
Wow Gran (sybram),
I didn't know your rosemary was that green! Mine never looked good at all, it always had a sick looking color to it... :P
carrielamont, one reason to grow rosemary: deer really dislike it. So if you want to grow something that deer really like, plant rosemany as a companion. I've seen deer jump our electric fence, swerve around a bed of roses with rosemary and various other plants, dodge the dogs and jump right back out. They could have stayed on the other side of the bed and the dogs wouldn't have noticed them, but I guess they changed their minds when they sniffed the rosemary. Wish I could intersperse the sweet corn with rosemany!
Hahahaha, Terri, I can see your story playing out now. My first thought is that I wish we did have deer around here. How fun to look out my window and see them looking soooo cute. My second thought is a flashback of the so cute rabbits that started playing in our yard way up close to the house several years ago when we (like now) had a couple years of bad drought. Those precious little things stripped my dwarf Indian Hawthorne slick as a whistle before I ever knew what hit me. We knew something was eating on them, but thought maybe grasshoppers..............no, we really didn't see many grasshoppers.............................other bugs........no, we couldn't find any of those either. The rabbits were leaving plenty of "hints," but we just didn't get it. One was that all the leaves were eaten away except those on the very top part of the plants (the little buggers stood up on their hind legs and ate as far as they could reach). We finally figured it out when I saw the little "pills." They were the same color as the mulch I was using then, and very hard to notice.
Replaced 31 shrubs that year.
Bunnies can be evil! Luckily the Redtailed Hawks and their various relatives out here think they are delicious.
Baja, hamburgers, supermarket corn, BBQ sauce on chicken breast, raisin bran with almond milk, grapes, iceberg lettuce with grocery store ranch dressing. BORING! I used to cook but he doesn't like my cooking (I do), so he became the household cook. BORING. Also doesn't like ginger (ginger snaps, gingerbread, gingery Oriental food) what can I say but BORING. He was brought up on Irish food then switched to McDonald's at age 13. Doesn't like quinoa or tabouleh. Or Greek food. Or any southeast Asian food.
But he does like ME and that's the important part! Terri, when it's not so hot I will plant some stuff in pots out on the patio.
I knew it was going to be hot but this is ridiculous.
☺, but fall is gorgeous!
....chuckle..... good thing somebody (mom, misterogers, kids?) taught me to wait patiently.
I have a co-worker who's wife makes a KILLER Rosemary Orange Marmalade. I couldn't fathom the two tastes together, since I was not brought up with Rosemary as an herb in any of my mother's New Orleans cooking. So, just getting past the fragrance took some doing.
Anyways, I received two small jars last Christmas, and tried it. Took some getting used to. But, once I did, I put that stuff on EVERYTHING! Eggs, Steaks, Chops, Burgers, my fingers when I got down to the last and had to scrape the jar!
And, then he gave me the ultimate gift -- the recipe.
So, ya'll hold on to your sage, heah? Cause you might wake up one morning and wonder where it went...(just kidding. I'd leave you some...LOLOLOL!)
Linda
OOOOoooooo! I love all sorts of marmalades! Not the sweet kind. I've not tried Rosemary/Orange Marmalede, but it is now on my list.
Rosemary orange marmalade? Do I have to like marmalade first?
Ahhhh I'll give you guys the recipe for whole berry cranberry sauce!!!!
OK ☺.
I put my Rosemary sprigs under the skin of the turkey or chicken before I roast it. ... and in the sausage stuffing. It is awesome!